Due to the Madden 12 thread, I'd thought i'd post what the news is about this years edition.

-There will be no more picks from defenders looking over the shoulder or having the ball come over head. Defense must face the ball.
- Super jump abilities for LBs/DBs has been taken away
-Receiver icons will light up for pass plays when they would expect the ball on certain routes. Doesn't mean they're open, but when they would expect the ball coming out of breaks.
-There are new accuracy tweaks. They want you to throw into windows instead of waiting for the receiver gets open (almost impossible on 12)
- New throwing motions, and specific drop backs for all qbs (3,5,7 step drops)
-QBs do PA faster so you don't get raped by defenses constantly.

All I've heard so far really, but it seems that this game should play better. However, that is what is said every year. Until Madden gets a true competitor imo (2ksports) they will continue to put out a shitty product.

Thats a good point. All I do is play offline franchise. Whenever I played online my opponent always picked the Eagles or Steelers or some other top team. Every damn time. And they would always do cheap stuff. So it just wasnt fun.

I would buy a game of offline franchise only, kinda like the treatment they did for Head Coach, but doesn't suck.

Games ok, only played one game, but i felt like playing another when i was done. Thats NEVER happened to me in a Madden game. Still i have some complaints about the way the guys feel like they are sliding on ice still. Not as bad as it used to be, but its there.

I've been saying this for a couple of years now. Madden really needs to put out two different games. One like it is now....minus the offline franchise mode. And one that's just franchise mode.

They can do it all in one game, but they just need to respect offline framchise more. And when they add something good - KEEP IT. First thing they need to do is get rid of the free agency ebay thing with all the timers on each player. That was annoying and stupid.

Sometimes its great, sometimes it looks glitchy. They will fix the glitchy looking animations I hope. I don't know what else to call it but "glitchy". So far I like the demo, and I liked 12 so I should have a blast with this one.

I also have high hopes that the Chiefs will be pretty good in this game. It has been a long time since that happened. I'm so used to starting a Chiefs franchise and having to suffer through that first season before overhauling a good chunk of the roster in the offseason. Now all I really need is a QB and maybe a prototype TE considering Moeaki will probably be average according to their ratings. Maybe a young beast MLB.

Some of the animations are terrible and need alot of fixing, but im sure they just said F it, throw them in there anyways. What looks REALLLLLLLY BAD is after a play you got guys falling all over the place when a player tries to get up. Someone always trips on them. lol That shit just looks half assed

Some of the animations are terrible and need alot of fixing, but im sure they just said F it, throw them in there anyways. What looks REALLLLLLLY BAD is after a play you got guys falling all over the place when a player tries to get up. Someone always trips on them. lol That shit just looks half assed

Yeah I noticed the tripping. Overall it's much better than years past, but it needs some polishing before release.